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General CommentTHalia Zedek has fronted COME, UZI, and Live Skull amongst other post/punk bands over the last decades. The music was often harsh, but her voice always triumphed. Now, in her first solo release, Zedek soars. She performs two tributes to Mr. Leonard Cohen, another singer/songwriter who cannot be comfortably catagorized. In her first, EXCOMMUNICATIONS, she rewrites EVERYBODY KNOWS (a Cohen classic, check it out on this site!). She also steps in and takes up where Cohen ends in DANCE ME TO THE END OF LOVE. The musical rampage at the end of this piece is ...i have no words. Let put it this way, if Lenny Cohen is G-d, and doesn't just transcribe for it, THalia Zedek is the shejina, the female personification of The Divine.